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Lobby
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
(2):
(n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
(3):
(n.) That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
(4):
(n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
(5):
(v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
(6):
(v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lobby'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/lobby.html. 1828.
